Daniel Chua
Biographic Data
| ID | 3457326 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Chua |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Chua |
| SIGNATURE | CHUA D |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Explorando los fundamentos de una musicología global. Conferencia inaugural del IV Congreso de Arlac/IMS, Buenos Aires, 5 de noviembre de 2019
En esta ocasión, quisiera compartir algunas reflexiones acerca de la idea de “globalizar” la musicología, o sea, de pensar la musicología desde una perspectiva global. Estas ideas han resultado de mi posición como presidente de la Sociedad Internacional de Musicología (IMS), en la que es necesario preguntarse cómo encauzar una sociedad internacional. De esto se desprende que mis reflexiones no sean de carácter teórico, sino simplemente inquietude…
Adorno's Symphonic Space-Time and Beethoven's Time Travel in Space
Theodor W. Adorno's "theory of the symphony" is modeled on Beethoven's heroic symphonies; these works form the basis for Adorno's arguments against the broadcast of symphonies on radio. A "radio symphony," he claims, is not the same as the real thing and fails to deliver the true meaning of the music. The arguments are based on a peculiar configuration of space and time in the symphonies in which the temporal dimensions are so compressed that the…
Listening to the Other: A Counter-Cultural Ear in iPodic Times
This response aims to widen the implications suggested by Bernd Wannenwetsch by exploring how music may promote a listening that breaks out of a monad-like subject
On the soul
Polyps posed a problem for the eighteenth-century soul. When Abraham Trembley in the summer of 1739 dissected these little pond creatures into increasingly smaller fragments, he observed that each piece could regenerate itself into an entire polyp. He even turned one inside out and watched it continue to live and propagate. But if these little bits of water hydra could grow back into whole polyps, then where was its soul? Did it not prove, as Did…
On the body
A vital materialist like Diderot had no problem with instrumental music since he had no real soul to worry about in any metaphysical sense; he could revel in the pure, secular sensation of its vibrations as the sounds oscillate violently through every nerve fibre of the body. Its power to excite was purely biological; it was not fixed by the authority of the rational soul, but depended on the particular disposition of a person's nervous system. I…
Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning
On disenchantment
For the German sociologist Max Weber, modernity is marked by the ‘disenchantment of the world [Entzauberung der Welt]’. What segregates the modern from the ancient world is a process of ‘de-magification’, whereby Western society exorcises itself of its fear of demons, ghosts and goblins. Modern humanity no longer submits itself to the spell of superstition and the sacred rituals of power, but has demystified its existence through the calculations…
Beethoven's Other Humanism
Beethoven's Promethean image has been reenforced in recent scholarship by the idea of the "heroic." Although the escalation of the concept has been recognized as an act of selective hearing based on a handful of "heroic" works, Beethoven's Promethean identity is likely to remain because it embodies the ethical values of a particularly virulent strain of humanism; Beethoven is still employed today to mark the epochal events of human history-from t…
Rioting with Stravinsky: A Particular Analysis of the Rite of Spring
The riot that greeted the Rite of Spring only found its analytical counterpart some 70 years after its première, with factions headed by Pieter van den Toorn, Richard Taruskin and Allen Forte. But the analytical tussle was hardly a genuine riot in as much the differing camps subscribed to a premise of authenticity in order to stabilise the work under a universal concept: the result was a Rite unified by theory. The scholars may have battled with …
Rethinking Unity
Believing in Beethoven
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The Galitzin Quartets of Beethoven: Opp. 127, 132, 130
This study is an analysis of the first three of Beethoven's late quartets, Opp. 127, 132, and 130, commissioned by Prince Nikolai Galitzin. The five late quartets, usually considered as a group, were written in the same period as the Missa solemnis and the Ninth Symphony, and are among the composer's most profound musical statements. Daniel K. L. Chua believes that of the five quartets the three that he studies trace a process of disintegration, …
Rioting with Stravinsky: A Particular Analysis of the Rite of Spring
The riot that greeted the Rite of Spring only found its analytical counterpart some 70 years after its première, with factions headed by Pieter van den Toorn, Richard Taruskin and Allen Forte. But the analytical tussle was hardly a genuine riot in as much the differing camps subscribed to a premise of authenticity in order to stabilise the work under a universal concept: the result was a Rite unified by theory. The scholars may have battled with …
Rethinking Unity
Beethoven's Other Humanism
Beethoven's Promethean image has been reenforced in recent scholarship by the idea of the "heroic." Although the escalation of the concept has been recognized as an act of selective hearing based on a handful of "heroic" works, Beethoven's Promethean identity is likely to remain because it embodies the ethical values of a particularly virulent strain of humanism; Beethoven is still employed today to mark the epochal events of human history-from t…
The Galitzin Quartets of Beethoven: Opp. 127, 132, 130
This study is an analysis of the first three of Beethoven's late quartets, Opp. 127, 132, and 130, commissioned by Prince Nikolai Galitzin. The five late quartets, usually considered as a group, were written in the same period as the Missa solemnis and the Ninth Symphony, and are among the composer's most profound musical statements. Daniel K. L. Chua believes that of the five quartets the three that he studies trace a process of disintegration, …
Believing in Beethoven
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
Rethinking Unity
Rioting with Stravinsky: A Particular Analysis of the Rite of Spring
The riot that greeted the Rite of Spring only found its analytical counterpart some 70 years after its première, with factions headed by Pieter van den Toorn, Richard Taruskin and Allen Forte. But the analytical tussle was hardly a genuine riot in as much the differing camps subscribed to a premise of authenticity in order to stabilise the work under a universal concept: the result was a Rite unified by theory. The scholars may have battled with …
On the soul
Polyps posed a problem for the eighteenth-century soul. When Abraham Trembley in the summer of 1739 dissected these little pond creatures into increasingly smaller fragments, he observed that each piece could regenerate itself into an entire polyp. He even turned one inside out and watched it continue to live and propagate. But if these little bits of water hydra could grow back into whole polyps, then where was its soul? Did it not prove, as Did…
On the body
A vital materialist like Diderot had no problem with instrumental music since he had no real soul to worry about in any metaphysical sense; he could revel in the pure, secular sensation of its vibrations as the sounds oscillate violently through every nerve fibre of the body. Its power to excite was purely biological; it was not fixed by the authority of the rational soul, but depended on the particular disposition of a person's nervous system. I…
Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning
On disenchantment
For the German sociologist Max Weber, modernity is marked by the ‘disenchantment of the world [Entzauberung der Welt]’. What segregates the modern from the ancient world is a process of ‘de-magification’, whereby Western society exorcises itself of its fear of demons, ghosts and goblins. Modern humanity no longer submits itself to the spell of superstition and the sacred rituals of power, but has demystified its existence through the calculations…
Beethoven's Other Humanism
Beethoven's Promethean image has been reenforced in recent scholarship by the idea of the "heroic." Although the escalation of the concept has been recognized as an act of selective hearing based on a handful of "heroic" works, Beethoven's Promethean identity is likely to remain because it embodies the ethical values of a particularly virulent strain of humanism; Beethoven is still employed today to mark the epochal events of human history-from t…
Listening to the Other: A Counter-Cultural Ear in iPodic Times
This response aims to widen the implications suggested by Bernd Wannenwetsch by exploring how music may promote a listening that breaks out of a monad-like subject
Adorno's Symphonic Space-Time and Beethoven's Time Travel in Space
Theodor W. Adorno's "theory of the symphony" is modeled on Beethoven's heroic symphonies; these works form the basis for Adorno's arguments against the broadcast of symphonies on radio. A "radio symphony," he claims, is not the same as the real thing and fails to deliver the true meaning of the music. The arguments are based on a peculiar configuration of space and time in the symphonies in which the temporal dimensions are so compressed that the…
Explorando los fundamentos de una musicología global. Conferencia inaugural del IV Congreso de Arlac/IMS, Buenos Aires, 5 de noviembre de 2019
En esta ocasión, quisiera compartir algunas reflexiones acerca de la idea de “globalizar” la musicología, o sea, de pensar la musicología desde una perspectiva global. Estas ideas han resultado de mi posición como presidente de la Sociedad Internacional de Musicología (IMS), en la que es necesario preguntarse cómo encauzar una sociedad internacional. De esto se desprende que mis reflexiones no sean de carácter teórico, sino simplemente inquietude…
Philosophy (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (7 works) · Musicology and Musical Analysis (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Library science (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works)